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...most current immigration raids to the legitimacy of immigration as either a civil or criminal issue. The day was divided into three parts: Immigration and the Economy, Immigration and the Law, and Immigration and the Assimilation of the Second Generation. “It doesn’t seem like there will be a comprehensive piece of legislation [on immigration] in the near future,” said Cristina Rodriguez of the NYU School of Law. “There is too much to be dealt with in Congress right now. We might see piecemeal reform, though, before comprehensive reform...
...second-ever to exclusively feature Harvard students. (He recruited the dancers, all friends, by e-mail.) The filming took place in the dance studio, which a friend of Shields was able to reserve for the filming. The studio was perfect, Shields said, because the mirrored wall made it seem like there were more dancers than were actually present. In the pitch-black room, accents of white flashed as the dancing silhouettes moved around a passionately singing Shields. Occasionally, the camera stopped rolling as Shields took a moment to adjust the lighting or strobe light speed. From behind the camera, Mary...
...wedding and that of an elderly woman realizing her long-time husband’s infidelity, and show how the feelings of these different characters are connected. They are both rooted in hurt and betrayal. Yet both characters decide to forgive and move on in a way that seems not naïve but mature, “because what did they have now except for each other, and what could you do if it was not even quite that?”When Strout’s stories focus on Olive that, the collection begins to feel like...
...inspiration, says that his digital stills, “Untitled (With Violence Removed),” are about how we come to view our landscape. “I think that we’ve come to expect terror and the unknown and the unprecedented. These video games stills seem absurd with the soldiers and the act of violence, but when I removed the violence the scene actually seemed much scarier,” he says. “Since 9/11, our imagination has unfortunately become increasingly vivid, for better or for worse...
...reaction to the potential axing of words has revealed specialized meanings that seem to have escaped the dictionary's compilers. David Pybus, a perfumer in London, says agrestic's alternate meaning should qualify it for preservation: "It is used," he says, "in the perfume and flavor industry quite extensively to describe an aroma note or type which is 'of the countryside,' such as hay, heather, forest depths or meadow." Who knew? Elsewhere, fantasy-game devotees have rushed to the defense of periapt (a charm or amulet), which they know from the popular Dungeons & Dragons game, and geologists have pointed...